Thomas Jay Ryan
11 titles
Filmography
11 results

Henry Fool
(1998)Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talent-less novelist. Henry opens a magical world of literature to Simon who turns his hand to writing the ‘great American poem’.

Strange Culture
(2007)In this moving and wildly innovative film, director Lynn Hershman Leeson tells the terrifying true story of how one man's personal tragedy turns into persecution by a paranoid and overzealous government.

Darla in Space
(2024)Darla Peterson and a sentient kombucha scoby named Mother try to raise the money to pay off Darla's tax debt using Mother's ability to grant orgasms.

Dischord
(2001)Pursued by a retired detective, a serial killer reunites with his estranged half-brother in Cape Cod and begins to fall in love with his wife.

Dedalus
(2018)DEDALUS is a fiction triptych portraying community, love, and loss. In rural Iowa, a grocery cashier watches helplessly as classmates conceal their act of sexual violence against his teenaged step-sister. Will she keep the child? A hustler tricks for food, shelter, and intimacy during a winter in New York City. A young woman takes him in, but nothing satiates his unrequited love for an older gay client. Mortality compels a father to leave his home in Los Angeles and move in with his daughter. Jonah Greenstein's gorgeously shot feature debut laces loneliness with beauty to create a film of startling cinematic intimacy.

Scenes from an Empty Church
(2021)When salvation-seeking New Yorkers come knocking during the pandemic lockdown, two priests warily open their church doors to some surprising ends.

New World Order
(2002)A college student researching social phobias gets obsessed with conspiracy theories, and soon begins to doubt that anything is real anymore.

Burn Country
(2016)When an exiled Afghan journalist settles in Northern California, he covers local crime and uncovers the violent, dark underbelly of his new hometown.
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
(2016)From cartoonist Dash Shaw comes an audacious, critically acclaimed comedy debut that blends disaster movies, teen dramas and blockbuster clichs into a dazzling tale about how high school shapes who we become, even in the most unusual of circumstance

Ghostwritten
(2022)Clinging to the reputation of his one-hit novel, a writer accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island, but something is amiss with the house.

Cryptozoo
(2021)The story takes place at a mythological zoo in ’60s-era San Francisco, where a Japanese creature with the power to eat dreams escapes and finds itself wrecking havoc against the backdrop of American counterculture.